This bloggie blog blog is about the just oh so wonderful short story, " Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. It is basically my response to it. I was not in class the day that we discussed this story, so lets keep that in mind. I have, however, heard that it is about abortion. So, I read the story and it seems as if the woman is planning on having something done to herself that she is extremely worried about. Maybe she is pregnant... but while they are waiting for the train she keeps ordering ALCOHOLIC beverages? Really lady why not kill your baby that way.. but it was definitely the 1920's so they probably didn't know that alcohol could hurt the lil bebes :( They guy was basically "coaching" her in some annoying way. She just wanted him to stop talking so that she could process the emotional feeling of aborting her baby... while only thinking of herself.
Well, discussing this poem in class was probably a sore topic. Who knows. I should've gone to class! Maybe the hills that resemble white elephants, symbolized a far along pregnant white female?
Or what if she didn't even have an abortion at all...what if it was breast cancer, or an ingrown toenail?
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